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...synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed out that natural gases collected from the crater of Mont Pelée were found to be mixed in proportions approximating those used in the laboratory for synthetic petroleum. With iron and the other catalytics abundant everywhere, nature, too, must be making "artificial...
...went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
...Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than the sun's heat, and of more abstruse scientific value, is the heat of stars many light years† away...
...South African mining areas, notably that at Kimberly, occur in the form of a huge vertical funnel or crater of "pay dirt" descending into the earth to a depth of half a mile or more. At first the area can be worked from the surface by the individual prospector. Later, as the pay dirt funnel is excavated, disastrous slides begin to occur and corporations must be organized to undertake expensive subsoil mining, which has been carried to a depth of 2600 ft. in some instances. Great diamond mining fortunes, like that of the late Cecil Rhodes, are usually made...
...series indicating that for the first time in history Britain was in an active earthquake zone. Vesuvius. Home bodies whose relatives were touring Italy grew needlessly uneasy over headlines in U. S. newspapers: "Vesuvius Again in Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last...